An explanation of the endowment effect and how it can affect trading.

Examining home run rates and batting average on fly balls and line drives

A look at players who could be affected by their 2009 schedules.

A special excerpt from The Fielding Bible—Volume II

The latest in the business of baseball.

Remember John C. Odom, the minor leaguer who was traded for ten bats last year? It was all worth a chuckle at the time, but there’s nothing funny about it anymore: Bat Man” or “Bat Guy” or “Bat Boy” — that’s what they called him. Ask the most hard-core baseball fan about John C. Odom […]

Darryl Strawberry on steroids: “Hell yeah I would have used them,” Strawberry said. “Are you kidding me? I mean, c’mon. Some things are part of what athletes go through and they happen …We’re competitive creatures, and we have tremendous drive, a high tolerance, all these things. I’m not saying that it was the right thing […]

Scott Herhold of the Merc lives near one of the possible landing pads for the A’s in San Jose, and while he’s a fan of the prospect, his neighbors aren’t: You see, I live in the Hanchett Park neighborhood of San Jose, about a mile as a City Hall falcon flies, from the potential site […]

Pedro wants a bit more than the going rate for his services: Pedro Martinez wants to pitch in the majors this season, but the three-time Cy Young winner prefers retiring to his fishing boat if the alternative is accepting a Tom Glavine-like contract. Glavine, Martinez’s former teammate with the Mets, signed with the Braves for […]

Each year, Geoff Young blows his whole winter (and then some) putting together the single most comprehensive single-team book you’re ever going to find. It’s called Ducksnorts, and it has everything you ever wanted to know about the San Diego Padres. It’s so detailed that I’m putting even odds on Geoff being called as a […]